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Mainstream Press "Cringes" At Win7 Launch Parties

Posted by kdawson on from the tone-deaf-and-two-left-hands dept.

lurking_giant writes "Well, Microsoft has done it again with the YouTube Windows 7 launch party video that is turning the stomachs of even the mainstream press with its clueless and campy marketing style. A Washington Post reader was quoted as saying 'If Microsoft had been put in charge of marketing sex, the human race would have ended long ago, because no one would be caught dead doing something that uncool.'" Even the Guardian's resident die-hard Apple hater calls it "the most nauseating advert in history."

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  1. Ratings disabled? by SanityInAnarchy · · Score: 5, Informative

    I wonder why...

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  2. NPR weighed in by Peter+Simpson · · Score: 4, Informative

    Heard it on All Things Considered on the way home tonight. They played a clip from the "how to give a party" video. There were several comments about how MS's marketing dept had missed the target again.

  3. Re:Look at the Bright Side by gblackwo · · Score: 5, Informative

    Why was this modded funny? I don't get it.

  4. Re:Look at the Bright Side by gblackwo · · Score: 4, Informative

    I was being sarcastic not informative!

  5. Re:The best way to use windows ... by Mr2001 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Ie. what I want to do is simply mv */*xml . Very basic stuff.

    Being an ignorant *nix geek, I find this a difficult task to achieve using the GUI, so I try the MS-DOS shell, I still can't work it out, move being somewhat different to mv. And I freely admit it might be my fabled geek ignorance of Windows at work, so if anyone can give me the DOS cmd that does this ...

    for /d %i in (*) do move %i\*.xml .

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